Adventures close to home

Rough Trade 45s: Volume 1 digs into the label’s wiry, wide-eyed past—an archival tour of DIY urgency, featuring Subway Sect, The Raincoats, The Pop Group, and more, coming as a limited 7" boxset. Ty Segall's Possession finds the garage rock shapeshifter diving headlong into psych-folk noir, equal parts hypnotic and harrowing—a fever dream you can hum. Swans' latest, Birthing, is as intense and unrelenting as the name suggests, another punishing hit of devotion from Gira and crew. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Laminated Denim continue their genre-hopping crusade with a motorik mantra for the head-nodders—a locked-in, two-track trance ritual. Madlib's Low Budget High Fi Music sees him return to his hip hop roots, turning hiss and dust into high art once again, finding soul in the cracks and rhythm in the rubble. And Sparks' Mad! proves the Mael brothers are still pop’s sharpest surrealists—wildly clever, gloriously unhinged, and somehow timeless.

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